Case for organised retail in horticulture produce

That consumers have had to pay Rs 65 a kilo or more for onions — an increase of Rs 10 in a week — demonstrates the power of ‘Big Retail’. Not of those such as Reliance, Big Bazaar, Bharti-Walmart and Mother Dairy; these organised retailers together handle less than 50,000 tonnes of India’s annual onion production of 16-17 million tonnes. The real Big Retail in onions are the traders at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra and Delhi’s Azadpur mandi.

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